The U.S.-Iranian Relationship and the
Future of International Order

  This event was held on
Friday, February 15, 2013
 

This symposium will assess the nature of current U.S.-Iranian relations and explore how the two state’s strategic choices will affect the international order in the future. The launch point for the symposium will be the forthcoming publication of Going to Tehran by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, from which a number of related issues may be examined, including how current interpretations of the NPT will impact its future viability as well as U.S. policy on threshold states, and the effect that an Israeli or U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear targets, absent Security Council authorization, will have on the way other rising non-Western powers perceive the current institutional and legal frameworks governing the use of force.
 

Points of interest:

• The Iranian Nuclear Issue, the End of the American Century, and the Future of International Order
   
• Panel I: Iran and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation
   
• Panel II: The Iranian Case and Use of Force Doctrine as a Constraint on State Behavior
   
• How Precipitous a Decline? U.S.-Iranian Relations and the Transition from American Primacy
   

Speakers include:

• David Andelman, Editor, World Policy Journal
   
• Ambassador Richard Butler, A.C.
   
• Vice Admiral James Houck

• Professor Daniel Joyner
   
• Professor Flynt Leverett
   
• Professor Hillary Mann Leverett
   
• Professor Tiya Maluwa
   
• Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell
   

This program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 4.5 hours of substantive law, practice, and procedure CLE credit and 0 hours of ethics, professionalism, and substance abuse CLE credit. (CLE credit is not available for the webcast.)

This event is sponsored by the Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs..